Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a93f5525fbca5ea1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 69afd64cecb636590ffac21c58ee09a3 SHA-1: 09b5ecb6241fa36a2e1123d8b2c83d2122431488 SHA-256: a93f5525fbca5ea164c5664387e793d121cde73d6dc0f60b7492f5ae7eb12f51
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA structure and could be used in the exploit chain.

Heuristics 4

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/